This paper focuses on the traveling salesman problem with time windows (TSPTW) that arises in postal services and parcel deliveries and has features differin...

Clustering is an automated and powerful technique for data analysis. It aims to divide a given set of data points into clusters which are homogeneous and/o...

This paper introduces two classes of location problems with interconnected facilities. These problems differ from classical location problems in the sense ...

Employee scheduling is an important activity in the service industry as it has a significant impact on costs, sales, and profitability. While a large amount ...

This paper addresses the winner determination problem (WDP) for TL transportation procurement auctions under uncertain shipment volumes and uncertain carrier...

The classical p-median problem assumes that service to customers is always provided by the closest facility, while in practice, customers often interact for...

In this paper we consider a version of the capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) where travel times are assumed to be uncertain and statistically corre...

Within state-of-the-art optimization solvers such as IBM--CPLEX the ability to solve both convex and nonconvex Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP) pro...

The multiple depot vehicle scheduling problem (MDVSP) has been widely studied in the context of public transit systems. It consists of building vehicle sched...

In global liner shipping networks a large share of transported cargo is transshipped at least once between container vessels, and the total transportation ti...

Let \({\mathcal D(G)}\), \({\mathcal D}^L(G)={\mathcal Diag(Tr)} - {\mathcal D(G)}\) and \({\mathcal D}^Q(G)={\mathcal Diag(Tr)} + {\mathcal D(G)}\) b...

Let \(G\) be a graph of order \(n\). The energy \(\mathcal{E}(G)\) of a simple graph \(G\) is the sum of absolute values of the eigenvalues of its ...

In this paper, we focus on the problem that has been described in the second international nurse rostering competition: a personalized nurse scheduling prob...

In this paper, we describe an algorithm for the personalized nurse scheduling problem. We focus on the deterministic counterpart of the specific problem t...

Given an integer solution, the integral simplex using decomposition (ISUD) seeks a descent direction that leads to an improved adjacent integer solution. It ...

The integral simplex using decomposition (ISUD) algorithm was recently developed to solve efficiently set partitioning problems containing a number of variab...

The bid construction problem (BCP) for combinatorial total truckload transportation service procurement auctions consists of determining one or several bids ...

A performance-based mechanism as a support for an environmental protection law is proposed to promote product recovery and to subside the pollution caused by...

In this paper, we evaluate the competitiveness of electric commercial vehicle (ECV) in medium-duty mid-haul logistics for a specific case study. This is done...

Electric commercial vehicles (ECVs) are gaining importance as they are seen to provide a sustainable mean of transportation. However, practitioners still see...